The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-12-30
MY RESURRECTION PRANK.
By GEORGE H. TAYLOR.

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oats and obtained a medical diploma,
4 had settled down in The little country
town of W-to work up a practice.
1t was very hard to leave the activities
Of the city and the prankish fe of a
student for the quiet of a rural COM
nun ty and the sedateness requisite for
impress ,ng the rural mind with the be-
lei that ali medical skill was locked up
IN the particular knowledge box car
ried on my shoulders. But the little
town of W-,or that particular
seGtion of it in which l had opened an
office, seemed to my friends, and, there
fore, to me, the only spot on earth not
already pre-empted by a member of
Ehe medical profession. So there l was,
awaiting a yer fication of the ad&go
that ''all things come to those who
wait"
had come very near having a case
that morning. A strange young wo-
n had come to the leading hotel of
Che town the day before, had been takea
sick during the night, and, as there
Seenod to be nobody to guarantee the
payment of her bill in case she died,
my professional competitors appeared
willing that l should have the job.
But the fates were agaist me, for as
Taseended the stairs l was toll that
the young woman was dead and her
body had been turned over to the ten
der mercies of the town and
undertaken. Even then the coterie of
'igood and true" citizens picked up
around the haE-reeaa door had viewed
the body and retired to meet Mt some
indefinite period and declare that 1.-THE
said person, to the jury unknown.
come to her death by some means to
the jury unknown" the pauper coffin
was in the Dor and the pauper hearse
stood at the door. l had been a little
dilatory in responding to the unex-
Pected and very early morning call,
and J had lost the case. So I TUNED
on the stairway and leisurely made my
way back to my Office.
The busin ess OF working up a prac-
fice" in medicin will at times depress
lhe most sanguine temperament, and |
have said. having one ef4hesa d-et,ressea
moods when Bonaparte Laguee, the
town undertaker's man of-alEwork,
dropped in wearing a very gruesoms
face and helped himself 10 a chair con-
s-saGisss afiy iieurTme.
sick, Bonyp' Iasked; for the young
man, though looking the very picture
OF physical vigor, seemed at a loss how
70 open conversation.
'Naw!'' he answered, in a tone of
strong disgust; only sick o. th )
buryin' bus ness, and o. that measly
smkn boss q mine. Do you know what
he's gone an doneP''
',No."
.9ReN, you know the old woman
Myers that's been q dyin' 50 long Of a
aaissase that none 0 yon medicine fell
lows could make out?"
Yes, died last night, / believer
Yes, an | let that worthless son q
hers have 4 coffin on tick an the boss
says he'll take The price Of it ont Of
my wages. Now. il wasn't moth
ing better than a cheap pauper coffin,
but | amt going 70 stand the loss ifmy
rich boss can't an he's going to have
that coffin back if ! have to dig for ii.
I'm going over to the cemetery tonight
Tor j, an 1 didn't know but you wan
led a good 'dissect' and would give me
q hand. She'd make a stunnin' dis
sect cause nobody knows what She
died Of I'm a little nervous about
there aione, an I thought if
you'd help me get The coffin I'd help
you goethe body
Here was a chance to chase away
melancholy. and ! hadn't had il lark.
ssnce | left college. III was found
out i would destroy all hopes Of i prac-
ice ii W., to Be sure, but that didn
mean much, considering how slight i
fabric those hopes were built Oh any
way. and It would furnish me with i
reasonable excuse to my friends for
emitting the apparently barren field
they had selected for me. Besides.
Was there no hope Of unearthing a
great medical sccret that might hand
name down 10 posterityg
Added to this there wouad be great
satisfaction ~ helping Bony to thrust
Mai cheap coffin under the nose Of the
erasen-spirited Worms, the undertaken.
and daring him to risk his own repu-
tation BY exposing Boay 10 the law.
Bony foyesgs might be at the ex
pense Of his situation, but i would be
Elch and il might have the contrary
afaof ~ n~on4na1f,n0 Worms ~ l<nn{,